I hope we won't see another Pennetta syndrome with Slone. After seeing the game in Bastad i had a really bad feeling when they meet in US Open. There`s something about her game that makes Simona exceedingly uncomfortable...

I hope we won't see another Pennetta syndrome with Slone. After seeing the game in Bastad i had a really bad feeling when they meet in US Open. There`s something about her game that makes Simona exceedingly uncomfortable...

My guess with flaia is that she plays more or less the same game as Simona, but we don't see much of that nowadays so even Simona herself didn't really know how to beat her.
I mean, simo can beat powerful players (like petra) by absorbing their power and defending their 1-2 shots before opening up the court and finish off.
She can defeat defensive players by accelerating her shots at once and being the aggressive one.

Same applies for flavia so probably simo lacked the experience against that kind of style and then you add the pressure of the moment + flavia extra motivated...

As for sloane the idea is similar, but the American is not as good as the other two, i think simo will turn the h2h soon

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My guess with flaia is that she plays more or less the same game as Simona, but we don't see much of that nowadays so even Simona herself didn't really know how to beat her.
I mean, simo can beat powerful players (like petra) by absorbing their power and defending their 1-2 shots before opening up the court and finish off.
She can defeat defensive players by accelerating her shots at once and being the aggressive one.

Same applies for flavia so probably simo lacked the experience against that kind of style and then you add the pressure of the moment + flavia extra motivated...

As for sloane the idea is similar, but the American is not as good as the other two, i think simo will turn the h2h soon

I agree with you, simona can beat aggressive players, defensive players, strong serve ones, it`s just a matter of time until she reads their game and then takes it. But this hype between simona and slone is getting on my nerves. i just hope they will meet soon enough and simona will show her some of that great tennis that we all love

I hope we won't see another Pennetta syndrome with Slone. After seeing the game in Bastad i had a really bad feeling when they meet in US Open. There`s something about her game that makes Simona exceedingly uncomfortable...

Survey sample too small, in my book. We need to see a replay. The Pennetta syndrome is that the Halep-Pennetta U.S. Open match was stopped for rain at an exceedingly indeterminate moment. There's no generalizing from that strange match. That said, it was a major tournament, and Halep lost. American tennis commentators are themselves exceedingly few, but here is Serena's Blogger, who calls herself Savannah's World, discussing the year-end rankings:

"I am going to mention two players not in the top ten, Simona Halep and Sloane Stephens. She [Halep] had a very nice end to the year and won a total of six titles out of the blue. Fans are predicting her to take the top ten by storm. One thing about the WTA is that doing well on the International level and so so in the majors is a route to the top that many have taken in the past. JJ and Wozniacki of course come to mind. You just play as much as you can physically stand and suddenly you're in the top five or approaching the top three. Halep is going to have to play big tournaments better. She's going to have to get past Jelena, Angelique and Caroline. None of them are going to hold the door open for her." (Savannah's World)

True enough, and getting into big matches with these folks, Sloane Stephens included, ought to be Halep's goal for this upcoming season. Whether she plays Pennetta again doesn't concern me so much.

The song was written 10 years ago - Zicu was a great hope in that time

A couple of months ago, it looked as Simona would go the same road.

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Originally Posted by oliverdescants

Survey sample too small, in my book. We need to see a replay. The Pennetta syndrome is that the Halep-Pennetta U.S. Open match was stopped for rain at an exceedingly indeterminate moment. There's no generalizing from that strange match. That said, it was a major tournament, and Halep lost. American tennis commentators are themselves exceedingly few, but here is Serena's Blogger, who calls herself Savannah's World, discussing the year-end rankings:

"I am going to mention two players not in the top ten, Simona Halep and Sloane Stephens. She [Halep] had a very nice end to the year and won a total of six titles out of the blue. Fans are predicting her to take the top ten by storm. One thing about the WTA is that doing well on the International level and so so in the majors is a route to the top that many have taken in the past. JJ and Wozniacki of course come to mind. You just play as much as you can physically stand and suddenly you're in the top five or approaching the top three. Halep is going to have to play big tournaments better. She's going to have to get past Jelena, Angelique and Caroline. None of them are going to hold the door open for her." (Savannah's World)

True enough, and getting into big matches with these folks, Sloane Stephens included, ought to be Halep's goal for this upcoming season. Whether she plays Pennetta again doesn't concern me so much.

True enough indeed, but what I personally always find amusing in these 'she has to do better in majors' discussion is that these always awake the impression that you will certainly have to face top opposition to reach the QF for example. This might be true for any unranked player, but Simona now ranked and seeded #11 could easily take advantage of a draw falling apart not even facing a Top 30 player until this stage for instance. With her current gamestyle I can't see her losing to any significantly lower ranked player taking in mind that she is not injured.

Look at Hantuchova's road to the US Open QF:

Sanchez
Duval
Glushko
Riske

In all honesty, this was the road to an American 50k ITF Final one year ago and doesn't look any more complicated than that now.

Simona's road to the title in Rosmalen:

Beck
Vinci
Tsurenko
Suarez Navarro
Flipkens

No comparison.

I hope she will once and for all receive a nice draw, play her game and get that GS QF

Simona now ranked and seeded #11 could easily take advantage of a draw falling apart not even facing a Top 30 player until this stage for instance. With her current gamestyle I can't see her losing to any significantly lower ranked player taking in mind that she is not injured.F

Exactly. It would take a particularly bad day for her to lose early in a major, and with her last year's record in mind (what is it? like 13 losses total?) that seems less and less likely. But it has to play out. That said, I think it will.

The back-and-forth with Stephens fans over some silly award is not something to concern me, even in an off-season. I think Stephens herself is a fascinating player, really quite likable in a number of ways, though it's strange to me that the few times I've watched her being coached-on-court, she ignores this poor old man who is her coach, and the mind-game really is inscrutable with her. She's like a baseball hitter who sits, as they say here in the States, "dead-red," i.e., fastball up in the zone. She waits defensively for the ball she can slaughter. How much more I prefer to watch Halep!